He's pro choice, but he's also pro life. We actually have Catholic friends that sent us this elaborate email (a chain letter from his campaign folks) that tried to portray his as NOT pro choice, which of course is a farce.
He's pro gun, but he's also for restrictions.
He's pro defense, but also wants to cut on it.
In 2008 when on the campaign trail he was telling everyone everything they wanted to hear, but where he actually stood was nebulous, like the language he uses which is never direct and where he refuses to take a real position on anything. He never allows himself to get pinned down in an interview. It's just this general fluff that allows anyone to hear into it whatever they like.
Now in office, his powerful left ideology is showing but he still tries to create the image of being centric which of course he is not.
Politicians like to remain "undefined" because this allows them to stitch together a majority out of conflicting and at times mutually exclusive value systems from those they want the votes from. Most Americans NEVER do any research on voting records nor read a biography. They vote based on name recognition, appearance and if the candidate tells them things which "feel good" to them. A candidate like Palin is highly defined and it's hard for her to pull the wool over some liberals eyes like Obama did to the average American soccer mom. Obama will have a difficult time to do this in 2012 because he will have defined himself for what he really is in the eyes of many, but he will possibly still win if the Republicans put up Romney, Huckabee or Palin. These candidates are all well defined and polarizing, each in his/her own way.
Yes, that's my point.
...but he still tries to create the image of being centric which of course he is not.
Yup.
I guess your first post was referring to the first election cycle when maybe 25% of the population was fooled by Obama. Combine with the 30% of the population who knew about and liked Obama's left ideology and that is why Obama got elected.
I would guess much less of the population is now fooled.